The Grade 1, $400,000 Bing Crosby Stakes, which gives the winner with an all-expenses -aid, automated entry into the Cygames Breeders’ Cup Dash on Nov. 1, drew a powerful discipline of 9 Saturday at Del Mar.
When it comes to latest finest efforts at this degree, Loopy Mason matches the invoice, having received the Grade 2 Carter Stakes Offered by NYRA Bets in April. Roll On Huge Joe received the Grade 3 Kelly’s Touchdown Stakes final month and in addition the Grade 3 Palos Verdes Stakes earlier this 12 months. Lovesick Blues received the Siren Lure Stakes on grass two months again and makes an attempt to run as effectively within the Bing Crosby whereas making the swap again to dust. World Report received the Grade 2 Amsterdam Stakes in 2024 and was not too long ago second within the Grade 3 Aristides Stakes. Dr. Venkman was a detailed second behind Roll On Huge Joe within the Kelly’s Touchdown and completed second within the Grade 3 Triple Bend Stakes previous to that. Hejazi returned from 16 ½ months on the sidelines final month when second in a extremely rated allowance race, received by Mbagnick. Hejazi completed second within the 2023 Malibu Stakes, a Grade 1 dash, two races earlier than the layoff. Easy Cruisein completed 4 ¼ lengths behind Dr. Venkman when third within the Triple Bend in Could for his finest stakes outcome to this point. Spirit of Makena received the Triple Bend Stakes in 2023 when it was a Grade 2 race however is winless in 5 races since then.
Evaluation and fundamental contenders:
World Report hasn’t but set a world report however he’s run exceptionally quick, resembling when successful in Could of this 12 months and operating six furlongs in a scorching 1:07.84, incomes a 111 Equibase Velocity Determine, which is the third-highest determine earned by any horse on this discipline for the gap of the Bing Crosby, simply behind the 114 determine Roll On Huge Joe earned successful the Palos Verdes Stakes in February and the 112 determine Mbagnick earned for successful an allowance-optional claiming race final month. Since including blinkers in July of final 12 months, World Report has received three of six races, together with the Amsterdam Stakes one 12 months in the past. Following the win in Could, World Report could have returned a bit too quickly in his second begin again after a protracted layoff within the Aristides Stakes, the place he led by a size within the stretch and was caught and handed however nonetheless battled gamely to the end line to finish up in a lifeless warmth for second. Coming into the Bing Crosby, World Report has been rested almost two months and may fireplace recent as he did in Could. Not solely does jockey Flavien Prat get probably the most out of World Report when aboard, however (per a Race Lens question) Prat and coach Rodolphe Brisset have a really robust report going again 4 years the place they’ve mixed to win 13 of 43 races (25%), with 28 of these 43 starters having completed within the cash. Prat leads all North American jockeys by purse earnings ($19.1 million) in 2025 to this point, successful 156 of 631 races (25%). Prat selecting to experience this horse and forego a whole day at Saratoga Race Course, the place he has been using day by day, says loads in regards to the probabilities of World Report successful this race.
Roll On Huge Joe has completed first or second in six straight races and, extra importantly, earned wins in each stakes races he has competed in throughout that span. He received the Palos Verdes Stakes in February on the distance of the Bing Crosby and earned a then career-best 114 velocity determine in doing so. Two races later, he received a race at Churchill Downs with a brand new career-best 121 Equibase Velocity Determine, earlier than successful the Kelly’s Touchdown Stakes 4 weeks in the past with a 104. Jockey Julien Leparoux has ridden Roll On Huge Joe simply twice, in each latest wins, and travels west to experience him within the Bing Crosby. If there’s a concern, it’s that the 5-year-old gelding has almost as many second-place finishes, six to be exact, as wins (seven) in his profession. Nevertheless, if he repeats both of his three most up-to-date successful efforts, he may very well be very robust to beat.
Loopy Mason, like World Report and Roll On Huge Joe, ships into California from components elsewhere to attempt to earn a spot within the Breeders’ Cup Dash this fall. In dash races on dust, the colt has received 4 of eight, together with the Carter Stakes in April with a 107 velocity determine. He improved to a career-best 111 Equibase Velocity Determine when third within the True North Stakes in June, a race wherein he was not disgraced because it was received by dash division chief E-book’em Danno, who returned to win the Alfred G. Vanderbilt Stakes July 19. Loopy Mason normally races behind the sphere, having received three races in a row from January by way of April with visually spectacular late rallies. On this 12 months’s Bing Crosby, most of the different eight entrants have proven a bent to guide or press the tempo within the early levels, organising Loopy Mason for a giant late run as soon as once more. Having put in a scintillating :47.40 half-mile exercise earlier than leaving New York, which was the most effective of 98 timed exercises on the day on the distance, Loopy Mason is exhibiting us he stays in prime type and have to be revered as a contender on this 12 months’s Bing Crosby Stakes.
The remainder of the sphere (with finest Equibase Velocity Determine in an identical race): Dr. Venkman (113), Hejazi (110), Lovesick Blues (113), Mbagnick (112), Easy Cruisein (104) and Spirit of Makena (109).
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